Big Sid's Vincati The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Motorcycle of a Lifetime

Name: Big Sid's Vincati The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Motorcycle of a Lifetime
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ISBN: 9781594630538

ISBN-10: 1594630534

ISBN-13: 9781594630538

Edition: 2009

Authors: Matthew Biberman

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A father and son build a legendary motorcycle and, along the way, reconstruct their relationship in this moving memoir When his father had a near-fatal heart attack and gave up the will to live, Matthew Biberman panicked. Impulsively, Matthew promised his father, an expert motorcycle mechanic, that they would build a Vincati motorcycle together. The Loch Ness monster of motorcycles, a Vincati—half Vincent, half Ducati— had never been completed in North America. Building a Vincati was considered, at best, a fool’s errand; at worst, an expensive waste of motorcycle parts. But for nearly sixty years, “Big Sid” Biberman was the mechanic to see to refurbish and repair motorcycles, especially…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 4/30/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Prologue: In the Hospital



How Sid Got Big



Flat Out



Last Train to London



A Score to Settle



Sid's Kid



Why God Made Sunday



Near Miss



Another Jewish Faulkner



Getting Back On



The Build



Sid's Return



The Land of the Righteous



The Last Piece



The Mechanic and the Professor



Lucy's Bike



The Road



Last Rides



Locked Up



First Start



Sid's Gift



Strange Beach


Epilogue: Every Day


Notes


The Vincatis


Polly's Specs


Acknowledgments